Kuomintang Chiang

Kuomintang Chiang was the conservative faction of the Chinese Kuomintang party, founded in 1926. The faction, led by Chiang Kai-shek, opposed the liberal Kuomintang Sun and the Feng Yuxiang clique, and it took over the KMT in 1928, when Chiang became chairman of the Nationalist Government of China. The faction continued the Kuomintang Sun's radical policies against private merchants and industrialists, who were deemed counter-revolutionary and reactionary, despite Chiang voicing his strong opposition to communism. The faction came to dominate Chinese politics after the Central Plains War of 1930, and it became the ruling KMT faction by 1933.